Calibration assembly for aide in detection of analytes with electromagnetic read-write heads

US9040311B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• David Berman · San Jose, US
• Dylan J. Boday · Tucson, US
• Icko E. T. Iben · Santa Clara, US
• Wayne Isami Imaino · San Jose, US
• Stephen L. Schwartz · Tucson, US
• Anna W. Topol · Jefferson Valley, US
• Daniel J. Winarski · Tucson, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2011
• Grant date: May 26, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N27/745
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Described are embodiments to ensure that the equipment utilized to detect antigens is reliable and accurate. Accordingly, one embodiment of the invention includes a calibration assembly having nanoparticles, with known magnetic properties, spaced apart at known y-axis locations along the calibration assembly. In one embodiment, the calibration assembly may be used to calibrate a matched filter of the write and read circuitry. Because the calibration assembly comprises nanoparticles with known magnetic properties the read response of the read circuitry to a particular nanoparticle may be stored in the matched filter as an ideal signal for that nanoparticle. The ideal signal stored in the matched filter may then be utilized for reliably and accurately detecting antigens. Still further, the ideal signal stored within the matched filter of the write and read circuitry may be utilized in a correlation test of a calibration assembly to ensure that the calibration assembly is within a manufacturer's or user's acceptable standards for calibration of their write and read assemblies.